Photograph by Nels
ST. ROMBOLD'S TOWER, MECHLIN, FROM THE DYLE RIVER
This 15th-century Belfry was originally designed to be the highest in
Christendom (see text, page 512). Its carillon is one of the finest in
the world.
Photograph
by
Melville
Chater
THE VILLAGEMERCATOR
PUT
ON
THE
MAP
Beside the church standsthe
statue
which
Rupelmonde
has
erected
to
the memory of her most distinguished
son,
thecartographer
who
devised
the "Mercator projection"(see
text,
page
521).